View some more images from the Goosen Family Portrait Collection.
The Goosen family met me at the wedding of Huibre and Schalk. They are from Pretoria side but wanted some nice family shots for their holiday house in Strand. Being the off season, I have time now to shoot family portraits and stuff like that. It was an awesome day and we went to a couple secret spots on the massive hill beside my office.
See more images from this portrait session.
Matt and Andrea were actually married prior to coming to SA (in, you guessed it the UK) but seeing as they are from ol’ Sunny South Africa they decided to come here and have a reception. I was hired to shoot portraits of them and the venue was cool to do so. It was my first time shooting at Clara Anna Fontein in Durbanville. I didnt know that we had small African villages right in the heart of Durbanville. But I do now!! Its a great venue if you want a rustic African experience and cant leave the Cape.
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Click here to view the Rest of Matt and Shelley Wedding Photography Collection.
Matt and Shelley had their wedding day an one of the most perfect days of the season. Matt and Shelley live in the UK, and met over there too. Shelley is orignally from this side, but they both live over there now. Well at least the weather this time of year is lekker in the UK, but Shelley convince your man that Cape Town is where its at, and Repatriate!! You don’t have to though, South Africa misses all her children!!
Although the “season” is busiest in December to March to mid May are the best times of the year in the Cape to have a wedding celebration. Besides the night starting at a decent time, the weather is usually perfect and not to hot or windy, or too cold and rainy……generally!!! Anyway, because of the time of day I shot the portraits I was able to have more effective and harsher (which I love) lighting.
You can have harsh lighting in any scenario really, one just needs sufficient lighting and usually it is very expensive (that’s why most wedding photographers want to shoot in the shade, because they dont have sufficient lighting or know how to use lights for that matter). I personally consider myself a lighting snob and am proud that I use only Profoto generators and heads (the most “zef” lights out there), and have up to 1200 watts of light at any time (thats a s&@t load!!). Lots of photographers, use “off camera flash” (a term generally used to say that their flash gun are on a stand and come from an angle other than the direction of the lens), but besides the light being hard to shape, it really isnt very powerful and has little control. I dont use any flash guns (little lights that one puts on a camera or stand with a wireless transmitter), because unless you have a low light scenario the light generally acts as a fill light and it kind of gives the image a cheap feel.
Why am I all of a sudden talking technical, just because lots of people ask me about weather on the day, and to be honest, if a photographer can light well then it doesn’t matter what time of day the portraits are taken. Going back to me loving March and April. Well Its just comfortable to shoot and nothing is worse than when the heat makes the portrait session and wedding in general hard to bare because its lekker stinking hot. Why am I saying all of this. I dont know, I guess I just figured I would!
Did I mention that the season is over? Oh, did I mention I have soo much news? Oh did I mention anything?
I think I used the word “Zef” incorrectly. But I like Die Antwoord now, IM a Ninja!
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Click here to see more images from Matt and Sarahs wedding at Tokara Wine Estate.
Ok, so its been a long time since I have been able to update my site with some weddings I have shot. Its the end of my season now and it just got to the point that I had invest the time I had in actually getting all the jobs edited and out to everyone. We are finally at the stage where I think Ill have about 2 or 3 more weeks of editing and then all the weddings from this season will be complete!! I look forward to being able to go through all the work I have done this year and to pick out my best shots, and the work that im proud of. Or most proud of, as I am proud of all my work!!
Matt and Sarah besides being a great couple to shoot, are lots of fun and if you saw shots from their pre wedding shoot you may have read that I am better pole dancer than Sarah. Yes, we have all gone and Jolled (im from Canada so excuse the great attempts of sounding South African!!) together!!
The wedding was held at Tokara, and it was tons of fun. After the wedding we just hung out like guests as we have all become friends.. Great place to have a wedding but late in the season be careful as it can get very chilly on the balcony and also its sooo dark, so the photographer needs serious lighting. Its no worries though we have it!
Enjoy, and come back soon as I will be posting many many weddings over the next few weeks, and also announcing some new projects and news…..if your interested ofcourse!
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Come, gentle night, – come loving black brow’d night.
give me my Romeo; and when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of Heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish Sun.
click here to view Celeste’s Cherish Image at www.thecherishseries.com
As you may know The Cherish Series, is a special series of images that was created by myself and Rudi Silbermann. I think if you have visited my site before then you will know all about it.
Also you may know that recently I did a very special shoot of amazing Celeste De Kock. Celeste story has effected many people, all over South Africa and all over the world infact.
Celeste and I decided to take away the images as they were taken and also displayed publicly for a specific purpose and that purpose was closure for Celeste. We agreed that the images had helped her move on to a new phase in her life, and also as mentioned had effected so many people.
We like the idea that the images were there. People saw them, some people were shocked, some people were moved and others simply interested in the profound story and moving portraits. I don’t like the idea of people coming to see the images in a voyeuristic way, and I am a true believer in the idea of “its better to burn out than fade away”.
So, as in the way that death ends life, and the way that the images and Celeste’s story was suddenly there. Suddenly they are gone.
So for all those wondering about the images, or wanting to see them, I have decided to leave you with the Cherish Image, the final image in the Cherish Series. The images are designed so that the subjects will cherish the image, and the time, and meaning of whatever is depicted, for life.
The symbolism of Celeste’s Cherish Image is this. (in Celeste’s words)
Hope – (I have to have hope)
Faith – (I have to have faith to hope)
Love – (I strongly believe this is the “glue” that keeps life together)
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